Investment firm Oppenheimer & Co. says HPE is likely to take advantage of a robust post-spinoff cash balance to make strategic acquisitions, listing a number of storage, networking and hyper-converged infrastructure companies.

On stage at the Best of Breed Conference in Atlanta, Dell President and Chief Commercial Officer Marius Haas discussed the explosive partner growth opportunity in the wake of Dell's $58 billion blockbuster acquisition of EMC.

In a live on-stage interview at The Channel Company's Best of Breed Conference, Palo Alto Networks' CEO Mark McLaughlin fielded questions on the impact of major cyberattacks and the problems stemming from the traditional security tools that are so prevalent.

In a live on-stage interview at The Channel Company's Best of Breed Conference, NetApp CEO George Kurian fielded questions on the impact of Dell's EMC acquisition, NetApp's future as an independent company and the storage company's pivot toward data management.

Dell EMC World 2016 was part technology crash course, part marketing campaign and part social event where execs, partners and customers could learn, network and soak in the confidence and enthusiasm being exuded by Chairman and CEO Michael Dell and other top leaders.

Lenovo's new converged infrastructure partnership with Nimble Storage is only one step in a plan to gain a major presence in the enterprise data center, a market the company cannot tackle with its server and PC business alone.

The best and worst states for millennials starting a solution provider business depend on criteria such as the millennial percentage of the population, cost of living, quality of life and tech industry employment.